Dr Benjamin Wolf

Senior Lecturer

Professional Biography

Benjamin Wolf completed his PhD at the Music Department of Royal Holloway, University of London. He currently lectures at Regent's University London, having previously worked as Senior Associate Teacher in the Music Department of Bristol University and as a visiting lecturer at Royal Holloway. His research focuses on the institutional and social contexts for music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He has given papers on various individual composers and institutions, most recently at the International Conference on Analysing Popular Music (POPMAC) and the conference of the North American British Music Studies Association (NABMSA). A study of the SPNM was published in the Musical Times of December 2013, and a book chapter concerning the institutional structure of the British symphony orchestra will shortly be published by Oxford University Press. He has also worked as Research Assistant for a Royal Holloway project examining the use of music to accompany early silent films, and was one of the organisers of the IMR’s ‘Music in Britain’ conference in 2013. He has given talks on British cultural policy, and has written articles for the Financial Times and other non-academic journals. Outside the realms of academia, he is an active performer and composer, specialising particularly in Jewish classical music. He has performed at many of London's principal concert venues, including the South Bank Centre and Westminster Abbey, as well as appearing on the BBC and touring internationally. Within Regent’s University he is responsible for the university’s Music Society and Choir, and works on singing with the students of RSDFM.

2011, Research Assistant, Film Fitting and Silent Film Music Project, Royal Holloway, UL

Professional Affiliation(s)/Accreditation

(2016) Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Teaching & Course Development

Regent's College: Development and Delivery of four courses (Introduction to Music Appreciation, Contemporary Music in London, Religion in the Arts, History of Rock & Roll)

Regent's College: Development and Delivery of two courses (Introduction to Music Appreciation and Contemporary Music in London)

Bristol University: Development and Delivery of first-year History of Music Course; Development and Delivery of split-level (second/third-year undergraduate) courses (Intersections of Elite and Popular Music 1850 – 1920; Promoting the Avant-Garde 1930 – 1980); First-Year Undergraduate Tutorials

Royal Holloway: Development and Delivery of first-year History of Music course; Development and Delivery of first-year course (Introduction to Historical Musicology)

Research Interests

Social and political history of music; historiography; genre and definitions of genre

Publications

Wolf, B. (2007). Review of Christopher Fifield, Ibbs and Tillett: The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire, published in Music and Letters 88/1, 161-163.